Controlling Emerging Infectious Diseases in the 21st Century

Galveston Island Convention Center, Galveston, Texas
February 26-28, 2010

Registration deadline: 1 February 2010
Abstract submission deadline: 29 January 2010

Symposium sessions

• Respiratory infections: influenza
• Respiratory infections: tuberculosis and other respiratory infections
• Mosquito- and tick-borne infectious diseases
• Hepatitis C
• Microbial drug resistance
• Enteric bacterial and viral infections
• Epidemiology of infectious diseases
• BSL-4/ACDP-4 pathogens
• Poster sessions in each of the above areas

Hosted by

• UTMB Institute for Human Infections and Immunity
• UTMB Center for Hepatitis Research
• UTMB Sealy Center for Vaccine Development
• The McLaughlin Endowment
• Health Protection Agency
• British Consulate-General Houston (Science & Innovation)

Registration

Deadline 1 February 2010
Register online at www.UTcme.net or by registration form.  

Registration Fee:
(includes conference fee and breakfast & lunch on conference days – not dinners)

• $50 UTMB and non-UTMB Graduate Students
• $100 UTMB and non-UTMB Fellows (Postdoctoral and Clinical), Research Assistants/Associates
• $175 UTMB employees who do not meet above criteria
• $300 All others

Abstracts and Poster Presentations

Submission deadline: 29 January 2010
Attendees (faculty members, scientists, postdoctoral, resident and graduate trainees) are invited to submit their research related to one or more of the areas of the conference for consideration as a poster presentation.

Abstracts should be submitted by email as Microsoft Word documents to Deborah James and should include the title, names of authors, addresses, and submitting author’s email address. The text of the abstract should not exceed 400 words. Awards will be given for the best graduate student and postdoctoral/resident trainee poster presentation.